1. Against Zoos, by Dale Jamieson
function of contemporary zoos as
well. Most people visit zoos in order to be entertained, and any
zoo that wishes to remain financially sound must cater to this
desire. Even highly regarded zoos,
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2. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
confined environment of the zoo.[7]
Another
example is taken from a widely used psychology textbook, which
tells the story of a baboon colony in the London zoo.
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3. Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap, by Jane Goodall
Swope. He visits the Detroit zoo
once a year with his family. One day, as he watched the
chimpanzees in their big new enclosure, a fight broke out between
two adult males. Jojo, who had been at the zoo
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4. The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond
to exhibit caged apes in zoos, but it is
not acceptable to do the same with humans. I wonder how the public
will feel when the identifying label on the chimp cage in the zoo
reads ''Homo
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5. The Ascent of Apes — Broadening the Moral Community, by Bernard E. Rollin
the past decade to create zoos which respect animal
natures give testimony to the spread of the new ethic. Further, it
appears that society is actually willing to give up certain animal
uses and
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6. Defending Animals by Appeal to Rights, by Donald VanDeVeer
captivity, as in his zoo examples and in the case of
factory-farming, is, I think, incontrovertible. Similarly, there
is little doubt that many experiments on animals inflict
extraordinary
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7. Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Human Survival, by Lewis Regenstein
British zoologist James
Fisher, in Wildlife in Danger, gives a detailed account of
the devastating effect of humans on the world's Pleistocene
animals and their role in completely
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8. The Silver Spring Monkeys, by Alex Pacheco with Anna Francione
monkeys. The National Zoo, the facility most
capable of assisting, refused to help. Local animal shelters,
although sympathetic, were not equipped. We were finally forced to
adapt the basement of
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9. Personhood, Property and Legal Competence, by Gary L. Francione
nonhumans in zoos or research laboratories. Accordingly, the only
role of the guardian would be to seek the immediate release of the
great ape unjustifiably restrained or imprisoned. Of course, it
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10. Ambiguous Apes, by Raymond Corbey
hospitals and universities, zoos and museums. Let us
assume that on the periphery of these societies of apes, whose
population is numbered in the millions, a few thousand humans,
close biological
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